Improvement in burial-cases



W. S. WOOD.

Burial-Cases.

Patented Sept. 22

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WITNESSES S mum's H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. WOOD, OF NEW'TOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURlAL-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,277, dated September 22, 1874; application filed August 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAIVI S. VVO D, of Newtown, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Constructing Burial-Gases, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to the construction of metallic burial-cases, whereby the operation of putting the parts together is greatly facilitated; and it consists in an eyelet or short tube inserted into the screw-holes of the upper surrounding stay-iron for holding the stayiron and the cover of the case together and the packing in position before the screws are inserted.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a vertical section of Fig. 2, taken on the line 00 at. Fig. 2 is a top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Metallic burial-cases are made in two parts, the body and the cover, and are usually swaged or stamped out of sheet metal, iron being the metal usually employed. A is the body, and B the cover. These parts are confined together by the screws 0. To render the top or rim of the body A and the edge of the cover B sufficiently strong and rigid, and to hold thepaoking, bandsof iron or other metal, D E, bent edgewise to conform tothe size and shape of the case, are employed, and are brought together substantially as seen in Fig. l. The screw 0 passes through the cover and upper band D and through the lower band E with a screw-thread. The lower band E is held in position .by the lip F. To keep the upper band in position I insert (after the holes for the screws are punched) eyelets G, as represented. Short tubes, having their ends turned or riveted substantially as seen in Fig. 1, will answer the same purpose; but I prefer to use eyelets made of proper size for this purpose, as being cheaper and more readily applied. The screw passes through the eyelet, and the top is fastened to the body, as seen in Fig. 1.

After the first hole through the cover and the band D is made an eyelet may be inserted, and will hold the parts in position While the other holes are being drilled and other eyelets are being inserted. The band and the cover being thus confined together, the packing employed is held in position, and much trouble and annoyance are avoided.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of the thin metal coffincover, the upper surrounding stayiron, and the eyelet G, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM S. WOOD.

Witnesses T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

